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Samuel Kusi Appiah

Spiritual Obesity: How to Exercise Your Faith

Loving Father in heaven, we thank you Lord so much.

It's your Sabbath day and Lord we can find rest in you Lord on the Sabbath you've given us dear father or you used to give in the days of old a double portion of Manna, and I just pray dear father that you give us spiritual insights this day, but insights that we can act upon, oh Lord.

I pray that you open up our hearts and help us to focus, dear Father, and not leave here the same.

All right, spiritual obesity, spiritual obesity.

This is the topic that we're talking about today.

And when I first discovered this topic, it was a bit strange to me.

Spiritual obesity, how do we reconcile those 2 things, right?

Obesity makes sense in the physical realm, but how does it make sense in the spiritual?

But anyways, for us to understand spiritual obesity, let us look at obesity in the real world.

It's interesting, when you look at the statistics regarding obesity, over 30% of Americans are obese.

But if we actually look at it, 35% of 372.2 million people is literally 130.2 million obese people.

To put that into perspective, that is just over 3 times the amount of Canada's entire population.

So we have enough obese people in America alone to fill a country.

You see, as there's been a greater quantity of food, right, obesity has risen.

The reason being is because our occupations have changed.

There's a time period where America, North America was an agrarian society.

Like, with agriculture, living in the field?

We take care of cattle, raise them, and then also a lot of hay we grow.

Okay, and when you grew the hay, did it come about the same day?

I was looking for some love, but I couldn't find it.

But anyways, so, I was from Toronto, grew up in Toronto, and as I went out to school to Berman, okay, we have some Bermanites there, I can find a little bit of love.

Okay, so as I went out to Burma now, there's a lot of agriculture or farms around right in Alberta.

So I had these potatoes that grew and they started to sprout and so something was telling me, you know, I think this thing needs to go in the ground.

So anyways, we had a pastor friend, he has a farm, we're like, alright, I need to plant these potatoes.

So he's like, it's okay, but you just gotta take care of the rest of the garden, right?

So we planted the potatoes, but in order to plant the potatoes, you have to till the soil, you have to prepare it.

Once you prepare the soil, you have to line them in a good enough distance so that 1 doesn't rob the nutrients from the other.

And then after you bury it in the soil, you gotta water it.

And it takes several weeks, if not months, for you to see something, okay?

So you can imagine months of working for food in order to survive.

But in today's society, is that the case?

Today's society, if you're hungry, you just go to the what?

So you have to, it's just an easy, you know, You get things easy in today's society, so it makes it easy for us to consume, consume, and consume.

And because of that, a lot of our occupations have become more sedentary, which means they're seated and inactive.

You know, you compare that to the farmers, literally, like, it's a lot of work.

As a matter of fact, let me tell you something.

And when I played football, there was 1 team, the teams that were always the hardest were the farm boys.

I never knew why back then, but the farm boys were like as strong as apes.

I remember there was this 1 farm boy I played with at university and literally he would just, like, he would just lift up big weights like a bimbo.

He just lifted up and just, yeah, okay, you know?

And it always amazed me at how strong these guys were until some years later, probably just only a couple years back, I was listening to a book by Ellen White, I think it was Councils on Health, and she said that working in the active air, or like, you know how farmers work, and they till the soil, so on and so forth?

That doing that type of work is the most beneficial for your health.

It is the most beneficial to promote physical health, because of how holistic the action is and then you're in the open air.

And so I was like, no wonder these farm boys were so strong.

And so it's crazy that today's society, we see more sickness, we see an increase of obesity because now we are less active.

But another thing is lack of temperance, right, lack of self-control.

You know it seems like today's society that we don't really put any restraint on how much we can eat because it's so easy to come by.

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